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Lead Ground Systems Engineer
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XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time
Lead Ground Systems Engineer
to our team, in
Chantilly, VA.
This position is
100% Onsite.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services
Lead, guide, and oversee technical efforts of six systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems.
Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team’s tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.
Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunities to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency.
Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities.
Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government – across the enterprise.
Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.
Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years experience with demonstrated leadership success on a variety of complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations.
In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance.
Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions.
Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies.
Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics—drives tasks to closure.
Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project).
Desired/ Qualifications:
Experience with Digital Engineering (DE)/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools.
Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator
SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications
Education:
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and 14 years or more experience
Master’s in STEM field and 12 years or more experience; PhD or JD in STEM and nine (9) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement
Security Clearance Requirements:
Must be a US and have an Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time
Lead Ground Systems Engineer
to our team, in
Chantilly, VA.
This position is
100% Onsite.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory services
Lead, guide, and oversee technical efforts of six systems engineers providing enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering services for SIGINT, GEOINT, and Operations Center ground systems.
Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess team’s tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate.
Work with government managers program leadership to organize and plan ground team support; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunities to enhance process or resource effectiveness or efficiency.
Provide technical support to government points of contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for ground system activities.
Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors supporting the government – across the enterprise.
Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership.
Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years experience with demonstrated leadership success on a variety of complex ground systems engineering projects impacting mission operations.
In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering and mission readiness processes; familiar with readiness events, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria; systems engineering governance.
Knowledge of GEOINT and SIGINT overall space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and mission processing functions.
Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
Experience in systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.) and cloud technologies.
Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics—drives tasks to closure.
Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project).
Desired/ Qualifications:
Experience with Digital Engineering (DE)/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools.
Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator
SAFe, Agile, INCOSE certifications
Education:
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and 14 years or more experience
Master’s in STEM field and 12 years or more experience; PhD or JD in STEM and nine (9) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement
Security Clearance Requirements:
Must be a US and have an Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph